Annals of Law

27 August 2011 |permalink | email article

A must read in the August 29 issue of The New Yorker, by Jeffrey Toobin, raises the question as to whether Clarence and Virginia Thomas will succeed in killing Obama’s health-care plan—and other troubling issues. Two revealing excerpts:

> Thomas’s views both reflect and inspire the Tea Party movement, which with his wife has help lead almost since its inception….Still, the Tea Party is unusual among American political movements in its commitment to a specific view of the Constitution—one that accords, with great precision, with Thomas’s own approach. For decades, various branches of the conservative movement have called for a reduction in the size of the federal government, but for the Tea Party, and for Thomas, small government is a constitutional command.

> Ginni Thomas spent much of 2010 on a coast-to-coast campaign against the Obama Administration. As she said in an introductory video on her Web site, “If you believe in limited government, individual liberty, free enterprise, national security and personal responsibilities, and have felt these principles are under attack from Washington, then you’ve come to the right place.”…”I’ve never seen, in my thirty years in Washington, an agenda that’s so far left. It’s a radical, leftist agenda that grabs a lot of power in Washington so that Washington elites can pick the winners and losers. 

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